...certain joys, sorrows, and consequently of common sympathies, Dr. Johnson expresses the opinion, ' that there has rarely passed a life, of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not he useful.' And doubtless almost all personal history, from that of ' the mightiest genius of two thousand...

...consultation of senates, the motions of armies, and the schemes of conspirators. I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful. For, not only every man lias, in the mighty mass of the world, great numbers in the same condition...

...consultation of senates, the motions of armies, and the schemes of conspirators. I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful. For not only every man has, in the mighty mass of the world, great numbers in the same condition with...

...REV. RICHARD RYMER. KaX-vv 5taKm<u? 'Irjtrov Kpiffrou.—ST. PAI-L. • • I n A v K often thought that there has rarely passed a life, of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful."—DR. SAMUEL JOHXSOX. LONDON: PUBLISHED BV SIMPKIN AND MARSHALL, STATIONERS'-HALL COURT ;...

...there was a propriety in placing on the title page the words of Dr. Johnson, ' I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful.' The subject of this narrative seems to have been a pious and laborious minister of the gospel in connexion...

...there was a propriety in placing on the title page the words of Dr. Johnson, ' I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful.' The subject of this narrative seems to have been a pious and laborious minister of the gospel in connexion...

...adapted to persons of all grades of intellect. Dr Johnson somewhere observes, that ' there has perhaps rarely passed a life, of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful ;' and a still higher authority has a remark to this effect— that the moral history of a beggar, fully and...

...memorial composed with more art, but dictated by less sincerity. It has been well observed by Doctor Johnson, " that there has rarely passed a life, of which a judicious and authentic narrative would not be useful ; " and perhaps this will not be thought the exception. And...

...altogether judicious, it is at least authentic, and I am willing to believe, that Dr. Johnson's remark, that " there has rarely passed a life, of which a judicious and authentic VI PREFACE. narrative would not be useful," may be favourably applied to the following pages,...

...the strongly expressed opinions of that giant thinker, Dr. Johnson, who says : " I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful. For, not only every man has, in the mighty mass of the world, great numbers, in the same condition...